I have found some information about voided slab beams on different state websites. Most of the designs call for an 2-5″ asphalt overlay. I’m using a 4′ wide by 18″ deep 50′ voided slab, with no overlay, for the county bridge. Voided slabs speed the construction of a bridge but as one engineer told me, […]
FHWA ABC website
Published in August 14th, 2008
Posted by Stuart Nielsen in Uncategorized
Here is the link to the FHWA ABC website. It is a pretty big website but darned if I can find useful bridge details. Of course it has links to projects and you can always contact the project owners…..but it would be nice to have some workable information.
Accelerated Bridge Construction
Published in August 13th, 2008
Posted by Stuart Nielsen in Uncategorized
Some more thoughts on the ABC conference I just attended. From the presentations given it seems we are still in the promotion stage of ABC. Meaningful design information is not readily available (you try finding full designs on the web) but presenters indicated information was coming in the form of a design manual. (in 6 […]
ABC
Published in August 12th, 2008
Posted by Stuart Nielsen in Uncategorized
So for the last day and a half I have been involved in an Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) seminar. It has been interesting to see what is going on in the field of ABC. Most of the project presentations focused on large, traffic heavy situations. As well they should because this is where you get […]